Gundapaneni Who?

Subbu Gundapaneni's brilliant claim to fame is to file a trademark application for Hyderabad Dum Biryani with the US Patent and Trademark Office on May 27, 2015.

And if all goes well nary a hurdle betwixt the filing and the approval, Subbu will soon be the proud possessor of the fantastic, non pareil American trademark - Hyderabad Dum Biryani

Like so many fine immigrants of Indian origin helping America regain its completely lost sheen, Subbu's roots may be traced to the sui generis Telugu bastions of Andhra Pradesh and/or Telengana in the Southern half of Incredible India.

An ERP professional in the Bay area, Subbu Gundapaneni is an entrepreneur swimming in the shark-infested waters of the Hyderabad Dum Biryani business via his restaurant Hyderabad Paradise Biryani in Milpitas, California.

What's Hyderabad Dum Biryani?

Were the old rabid anti-India cur Churchill still inhaling and exhaling, he'd be quick to distill Hyderabad Dum Biryani as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Truth be said, a prime steak is no more than an uncultured White Man's Hyderabad Dum Biryani.

Although the hoary origins of Hyderabad Dum Biryani are lost in the mists of history, suffice it to say the orgasmic mound of rice and meat is one of the great Culinary Wonders of the Modern Era.

In a sane world, wars would be fought solely over Hyderabad Dum Biryani, not over piffle like Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Those blessed with an introduction to the marvel of Hyderabad Dum Biryani slip into a heady swoon and henceforth distinguish their lives only in terms of BDB (Before Hyderabad Dum Biryani) and ADB (After Hyderabad Dum Biryani).

BC & AD, the child in the manger and the Hispanic Pope be damned!

Were my inamorata Jonathan Franzen to be miraculously enlightened, his post Purity offering would be a 563-page paean to Hyderabad Dum Biryani.

Such is Hyderabad Dum Biryani.

Guys, Subbu Gundapaneni's application for "Hyderabad Dum Biryani" has already earned the preliminary approval of the USPTO examing attorney and the filing will soon be published for opposition.

Like Hercules, Subbu is undeterred by failures that would fell an ordinary Man.

A few years back, Subbu filed a trademark application for Hyderabad Paradise Biryani with the USPTO but abandoned the effort after encountering rough weather over similarities with a previously registered mark, Paradise Biryani Pointe.

How scores of Hyderabad Dum Biryani restaurants in America respond to Subbu Gundapaneni's May 27, 2015 trademark filing will be as interesting to watch as the sequel to Rajamouli's cinematic magnum opusBaahubali.